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Re: [News] Farewell to Proprietary, Windows-based Voting Machines

__/ [ Maverick ] on Tuesday 06 March 2007 23:08 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> __/ [ Maverick ] on Tuesday 06 March 2007 18:27 \__
>> 
>> 
>>>Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>__/ [ chrisv ] on Tuesday 06 March 2007 13:34 \__
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Mark Kent wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Except a blue-screen should not take the machine down.
>>>>>
>>>>>Why the hell would a voting machine need a massive OS like Windows (or
>>>>>Linux) anyway? It's difficult to think of a more simple application.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Like Paint?
>>>>
>>>>http://melissatogo.blogspot.com/2007/02/multimedia-message.html
>>>>
>>>>One size fits all... and contains everything. Media player on Microsoft
>>>>Web servers...
>>>>
>>>
>>>Along with the built-in back doors for cheating the votes.
>> 
>> 
>> Insertion of USB media could do this. I recently posted an item
>> demonstrating that, under Windows, "insert USB" can mean "execute". How
>> dumb is that?
>> 
> 
> Very dumb.  But I had to post my point about how a voting machine could
> be manipulated... with enough money that is.


Have a look:

Tresys Nails 'Hardened Security' With Brickwall & Upcoming Razor

,----[ Quote ]
| "But SELinux contains tens of thousands of rules, written in
| assembly language. We make implementation easier by turning that
| spaghetti code into reference code," he said.
`----

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6365/1/

Now, bear in mind that the 'source' here is not quite human-readable. With
Diebold, there's no source out there /at all/.

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